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Total synthesis of the L-hexoses

  • Soo Y. Ko*
  • , Albert W M Lee
  • , Satoru Masamune
  • , Lawrence A. Reed III
  • , K. Barry Sharpless
  • , Frederick J. Walker
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Enantiomerically pure polyhydroxylated natural products are synthesized by using a reiterative two-carbon extension cycle consisting of four key transformations. The generality and efficiency of this methodology are demonstrated in the total synthesis of all eight L-hexoses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)245-264
Number of pages20
JournalTetrahedron
Volume46
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1990

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